Congratulations to our finalists! They will receive a travel scholarship to attend the OzCHI Conference in Brisbane, Australia in December and present their entry for final judging to select an overall winner. All finalist teams have been sent an email with further instructions.

We are also excited to announce that we have the following prizes to award at the conference:

Each member of the winning team will receive a Raspberry Pi Kit, generously donated by our sponsor Element14

Each member of the team in second place will receive a HCI related textbook, generously donated by our sponsor Rosenfeld Media

Each member of the team in third place will receive a small gift voucher.

All finalist team members will be presented with a hard copy certificate at the conference. Mini challenge winners will be emailed electronic certificates.

Thank you again for participating, and we look forward to seeing you again next year in the OzCHI Student Design Challenge 2018.

We would appreciate your feedback on the competition, particularly things that you enjoyed and anything you think we should improve on. We are very keen to hear both from teams who finished the challenge, and others who chose to leave the challenge early (or did not participate at all beyond registering) so that we can make the Challenge even bigger and better for next year!

The judges have truly impressed by the quality and creativity of your storyboards, well done to all the teams with successful submissions! We have thoroughly reviewed your storyboards and have finally come to a decision based on the criteria of the clarity of use scenario (demonstrates a real need and how this is addressed through design), what people will use the technology and how, and how creative and interesting is the storyboard.

The winner of the mini challenge 3 goes to Team Experiators! Your storyboard shows a clear and very nice example of sharing experiences and interactions through technology. The runners-up are The Frech Team. Honourable Mentions go to The Bridge, Elemelons 2.0 and Why See Design. There were a lot of fantastic submissions this time, and it was hard to narrow down the winning teams. Thank you to all teams who submitted!

Congratulations to everyone and good luck with your Final Challenge Submission!

Hopefully at this stage of the challenge, you are starting to get an idea in mind for your final design intervention.

In this challenge you will be tasked with developing a use scenario for your design concept and reflecting on the types of interactions and experiences that are generated through this design intervention, presented as a series of 3-5 storyboards.

The storyboards will help you have an idea for the creation of the video you need to do for the final submission.

Step 1: Think of a concrete use scenario for your design concept (even if this is not the final version of your design intervention, or the idea that you choose for your final submission).

Step 2: Draw a sequence of 3-5 graphical storyboards that illustrate the use of your design concept, and provide us with information about:

The use context

The people using the design

The interactions and experiences of using the design

Any positive or negative implications of the design concept for individuals, the community, and the environment

Your storyboards can be drawn using any visual style (e.g. photographs with text and speech bubbles, sketches, cartoons etc).

You have done an awesome job on Mini Challenges 1 and 2, and we are really looking forward to seeing your Mini Challenges 3 and the paper/video of your final submissions.

We would like to remind you that the focus of this year’s challenge is to design for sharing, i.e. to facilitate interactions and experiences around the definitions of sharing that you have constructed as a team.